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Del.icio.us reports 1 million users - post Yahoo! growth tops all of Digg

techcrunch.com — Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter just posted to the del.icio.us blog that the service has registered its 1 millionth user. Schachter says that number has more than tripled in the last 9 months. The company was acquired by Yahoo! ten months ago, in December of 2005.

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  • cbiz, on 10/12/2007, -23/+3It is because with Delicious you have to have a user account.
    • ImTheDarkcyde, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14you need a user account to digg, comment, or submit, so i see no big difference.
    • cbiz, on 10/12/2007, -15/+1Again, to use Delicious you need an account.
    • transfire, on 10/12/2007, -19/+5Make that 999,999!

      Now that I know Del.icio.us is owned byu Yahoo! (How did I miss that in the news?) I will be cancelling my registration.

      Yahoo! is a _bad_ company. Not only did they secretly charge me for services unrenderd and would not take them back (read the fine print they said), they then deleted all my email after only 90 days of inactivity (I was using it as as a secondary "store important stuff" archive account). In both case they just didn't care and made ZERO effort to try to help me out.

      Boycott Yahoo!
    • foobr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9you dont need an account to 'use' del.icio.us you can browse through peoples links without registering, same as on Digg where you can browse stories without registering.
      You only need to register to submit your own links same as you have to register to submit stories here so your point is null/void.
    • transfire, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2Boycott Yahoo!
    • deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"you need a user account to digg, comment, or submit, so i see no big difference."

      That's like saying a late model SUV and 57 chevy are the same because they both have 4 tires and a steering wheel.
  • ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Just like that... Who do you think could buy Digg? And, for how much.
    • IEatHamburgers, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Better not be NewsCorp... You can't really put a conservative slant on MySpace, but Digg on the other hand...

      5000 Diggs: Iraq War Going Exactly As Planned, Bush Praised
    • ZeonZumDeikun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4...Google?
    • tormsby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@IEatHamburgers

      Bravo! That is some funny stuff.

      Bury us all ye conservatives!
  • hotbeefman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I have no stance on them, but I hate that freakin' domain name. I hate reading it and I hate trying to pronounce it.
    • Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Dee-Li-Shs

      You know, like a good food, its delicious....
  • championchap, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9i saw del.icio.us way before i found Digg, but i chose to register with Digg rather than them because, well.. quite franky, the visuals on that site are awful.
    • mdweezer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7They're two different sites.

      It's got a cleaner, more practical look and is functional for finding a bookmark and finding it fast.

      You're a pretty new member here at Digg based on when you joined, the previous versions of Digg looked no better than Del.icio.us but had the same functionality as Digg today and look where Digg is today.

  • antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10I think Digg users are generally not very happy with the new features and the new group of diggers that arrived post 3.0. Digg has become a politicized site with many disenfranchised users.
    • f00xx0riz3r, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Yeah, and all the people going offtopic constantly in the comments.. will someone think of the CHILDREN!!!
  • Four20, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It was created in 2002(Fri May 03 20:19:45 GMT 2002). . .so they have a good 2 years on digg.com.
  • mdweezer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10They're two completey different systems.

    Social bookmarketing versus Social news.

    Each has their own market.

    I make a lot of use out del.icio.us (del.icio.us/mdweezer) and I also frequent Digg.

    Congrats to the Del.icio.us team and Yahoo!
  • misterpony, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6All I ever see are CSS and progamming links on delicious's popular page, so there must be A LOT of designers out there who just found delicious.
    • databyss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Designers have been big on delicious for awhile.

      Those kind of links are always in the popular/recent areas
    • misterpony, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2:/ That's my point. Delicious gained a loyal following of techies, just like digg, and if they supposedly have all these new users recently, why don't the popular links reflect a wider interest base? Digg's release of v3 brought in tons of new users and a much broader range of topics and delicious has been open to this from the beginning; digg's change was evident very quickly, but delicious looks the same as it has for years. I seriously doubt these new delicious users are using it at all...the Yahoo connection just prompted people to register, but apparently they're not using it.
  • repoman, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0Hey...on my blog I discussed about why digg is better...Visit tekmunch.com it's quite new lol
    • justinjacobs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hey...on digg, we don't like spam...
  • transfire, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1Make that 999,999!

    Now that I know Del.icio.us is owned byu Yahoo! (How did I miss that in the news?) I will be cancelling my registration.

    Boycott Yahoo!
  • chadu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I love del.icio.us! I use it so much.
  • cybersamurai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Digg may have half as many registered users, but it also has far more people who just come to the site and do nothing but read stories.
    • deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How do you know that?

      Are you omnipotent or something?
    • kingfelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1no, he's omnipresent. look out, he's right behind you!
  • systemghost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't even understand what/how del.icio.us is/works. I mean... yeah, okay, I do know but I've never used it because --honestly-- I thought it was a worthless idea.

    Maybe that's just me, but I feel like it's one of those "sounds-great-and-then-you-try-it-and-it's-pretty-lame" web 2.0 sites. Maybe it just always felt too haute net-culture for me.
    • deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sounds like you feel pretty strongly about something you know nothing about.

      Impressive. :-|
  • timsco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm trying to wean myself off Digg for del.icio.us. It just seems more democratic. I just got an account this morning.

    I'm tired of the recent gaming and the pack mentality that has developed here. I'm hoping that del.icio.us is more democratic.
    • misterpony, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think you'll be totally disappointed if you ditch digg and entirely use delicious. The intent, capabilities, and typical content of digg and delicious are totally different. Neither could replace the other (at least right now).
  • ZeonZumDeikun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use del.icio.us to save things I like for later, not necessarily to share them with others. With your feed, you can turn your del.icio.us into a second bookmarks list for things you dont want in your regular bookmarks.
  • repoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0um..how is showing a link to my blog spam as I discuss it in detail...again..just in case tekmunch.com , and Im not trying to spam or anything its because I made a huge word article about it
  • mojo3120, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you look at their popular sites on their homepage, it's usually half sotries from the front page of digg :-)
  • donolsen1155, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I find it very hard to believe considering how developer centric it is. This wreaks of FUD, trying to fight the Digg factor. I suspect the only reason they can report this is they've absorbed other user databases. Most of the people they've added probably don't even realize they have an account, much less use it.
  • wunch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I didn't use del.icio.us at all until I discovered the Firefox plugin for it. Now I use it all the time as an easy way to keep track of my bookmarks online. The plugin makes all the difference in the usability of the service for me.

    http://del.icio.us/help/firefox/extension

    I still use digg for news items, though.
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